Word: craige
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Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger nonetheless argued that Graham Martin, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, should begin evacuating the remaining Americans in Saigon and sympathetic Vietnamese. So little was done, though, that Lionel Rosenblatt and Craig Johnstone, two mid-level State Department officers in Washington, made a desperate effort to short-circuit the bureaucracy. They requested leave and hopped a commercial flight to Saigon to organize an unofficial rescue mission. Arriving at the embassy on April 22, they learned that orders were out for their arrest. They posed as French businessmen, holing up in an empty apartment found...
...artillery bombardment. The rockets killed two Marines: Lance Corporal Darwin Judge of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Corporal Charles McMahon Jr. of Woburn, Massachusetts. Two Marine helicopter pilots also died on April 29 when their chopper crashed into the sea near an aircraft carrier taking part in the evacuation: Captain William Craig Nystul of Coronado, California, and First Lieutenant Michael John Shea of El Paso, Texas. They were the last four Americans killed in action in Vietnam...
After allowing an infield single to B.C. center fielder Bryan Manahan, Harvard pitcher Mike Cicero walked third baseman Craig Katz to put runners on first and second with no outs...
...Craig MacDonald (F), Lawrence Academy; Mike Bent (F), Nobles and Greenough; Ethan Obermann (D), Hotchkiss; Ben Story (D), Ottawa (COJHL); and Peter Zackowich (G), Deerfield. Also returning to the Crimson after a one year hiatus is sophomore forward Ethan Philpott, who spent last season playing for Des Moines of the USHL...
...worth of dry cereal a year. Cheerios is WIC's No. 1 cereal, and in 1985 it was reformulated with more iron, specifically so that it could qualify for the program. So General Mills Inc., Cheerios' manufacturer, is preparing for a fight in Congress to save its sales. Says Craig Shulstad, of General Mills: "If the program is turned over to the states, the nutritional criteria could be abolished or watered down, and the integrity of the program could be lost...